Ecuador will send its first domestically produced satellite into orbit in late April from a launch center in China, the Andean nation’s president,
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“At the end of the month, the first Ecuadorian satellite will be launched, not a satellite bought from a foreign country (but) a satellite made in Ecuador,” Correa said in his weekly radio address.
He noted that the initiative was carried out by the Ecuadorian Civil Space Agency, which is headed by the country...
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